It’s no April Fools joke, I am one day away from being finished! I counted all the pieces left and there are 278 to go! I’ll get up tomorrow morning once the coffee is brewed and get myself in the puzzle room for a day of puzzling to finish this behemoth!

Everything is separated by shape and the left side of the puzzle is done so I can use that to know which shape I’m looking for.  It’ll still take a lot of the day (unless I get up early), and I’ll be completely finished. What in the world am I gonna do with myself?

I’ll probably stick to 1000 piece puzzles for a while, unless I’m wishing to spend a little more time on a larger project.  I have plenty of 4000 piece Heye puzzles to do, a 3000 piece Ravensburger, and plenty of 2000 piece puzzles as well. But perhaps for now I’ll stick to the smaller puzzles. I won’t know for sure how I’m feeling about it until I’m there. I may, as is usual for me, completely change my mind and do something completely different. 🙂

Anyway, tomorrow is the big day! I’ll be finished, but I have no idea when I’ll be able to actually assemble the entire thing, that may be a while. I sorta have to make up my mind about where the puzzle is going to end up. 😐

It’s starting to move faster now. I spent most of the day at mom’s working on the puzzle I got her for Christmas but between early morning and later in the evening I managed to get a couple of hundred pieces put in. 🙂

I should be done on Sunday. OH MY GOODNESS I should be done on Sunday! Completely done. How in the world did I do that? Of course I guess if I’m really missing working on this puzzle I could always assemble the extra Fantasia section with the damaged piece. At this moment I’m thinking ……..NOPE. Of course that does make me think that if I end up donating the puzzle somewhere or it ends up with someone else I’d always be able to assemble and frame that section of Fantasia as a reminder. I just cannot seem to make up my mind what to do with this puzzle. If only I had a wall anywhere in my house big enough to display it. I don’t. Not even close. I don’t even have a family member with a wall in their home big enough! Damn it!

So don’t leave me now, in 2 days this entire thing will be finished. I have no idea when I’ll be able to completely assemble it, that somewhat depends on where it’s going to end up. But at the very least I will have all the pieces put together!

Looking good, right?

Tomorrow I’m hoping to get all the grass done and then all that will be left is the white flowers at the bottom and the rock or stump – whatever Thumper is lying on. The grass isn’t too difficult with the different blades showing, it’s a little easier to match up the blades and shades of green. I didn’t work on Flower at all today, so if I finish the grass and am still feeling up to it I may try to get his tail finished.

I want it to last, but I also want to be done! I still haven’t figured out yet what to do with it, and I can’t really assemble the whole thing until I have a plan as to what’s going to happen with it afterward. I want pictures of the entire puzzle assembled, but I really don’t want to assemble it only to have to disassemble it afterward back into the 10 sections. Arrgghh! I have to make a decision! 😕

It’s unimpressive, but whatever. I can only do what I can do, stop pressuring me! 😉

Both of the tree trunks are assembled, and I was able to attach one of the falling petals near one of them; then I started filling in between the trees. It’s slowly coming together and looking good!

For the most part, from here on out it will be filling in.Tomorrow will be filling in the rest of the dark pieces and probably finishing Flower, his tail isn’t completely filled out. Once most of the top half is done I’ll turn the board back over and start on the bottom half. Lots of white flowers to do!

I realized yesterday while working on a smaller puzzle in bed that I was in danger of losing one of the pieces to this giant Disney puzzle! I went and grabbed one of the trays so that I could sort edges pieces; and when I dumped the edge pieces onto my smaller puzzle board and started assembling the edge there was a piece that definitely didn’t belong. I’m working on a Wasgij puzzle from Jumbo, and they have a distinctive feel to them – it wasn’t a Jumbo piece. It was definitely a Ravensburger and it had a mottled brown color (it goes between the tree trunks, I’ve already placed it) – and I thought “Holy crap, I almost lost this thing!”

It was most likely underneath the liner I have on the trays, and if I had been careless in how I carried the tray from the puzzle room to my bedroom I could have dropped it. I would never have looked anywhere except where I’m working on the puzzle!  There’s no way I would have searched in the hall, living room or bedroom. I came really close to losing that piece! Thank goodness I didn’t, I would have been SO upset with myself. 😮